Georgian media reports that former energy and finance minister Alexander Khetaguri and Nika Gvaramia, who is now director general of Rustavi 2 TV and was a government member till late 2009, as well as three other persons have been arrested for alleged corruption.
Among those arrested is Devi Kandelaki, chief executive officer of Telasi, an electricity distributor company in Tbilisi in which 75% of shares are owned by Russia’s state-controlled power trader Inter RAO.
They have been arrested after lengthy questioning in the investigations unit of the Ministry of Finance.